Wives Banished From Men's Club Should Start Their Own
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I live in a 55-plus retirement community. We do many things together, but we also do things independently. One resident decided to form two men's clubs. One meets every week for breakfast, and the other twice a month at night. The members go to each other's homes for the…
Rep. Paul Broun Would Back Obama Impeachment
Impeachment talk is all the rage–again. Rep. Paul Broun, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, indicated during a tea party-sponsored candidate forum this weekend that he would support the impeachment of President Obama. Candidates at the Gilmer County GOP forum, including Broun, were...
Italian Justice Ministry investigating Knox judge
MILAN (AP) — Italy's justice minister on Monday announced an investigation into comments to the Italian media made by the judge who read the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
China's unwanted babies (8 photos)
Chinese media frequently report harrowing tales of babies being abandoned , a problem attributed to young mothers unaware they are pregnant, the birth of an unwanted girl in a society which puts greater value on boys or China's strict family planning rules. In one such case, a baby was found in a…
Trader Joe's drops black-neighborhood store plan
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Trader Joe's grocery-store chain has dropped a plan to open a new store in the heart of the city's historically African-American neighborhood after activists said the development would price black residents out of the area.
China's navy holds Indian Ocean drills
BEIJING (AP) — A three-ship Chinese navy squadron has concluded exercises in the Indian Ocean and sailed on to the western Pacific, showing off the growing reach of the country's seagoing forces at a time of sharpening territorial disputes in regional waters.
Pacific castaway arrives back in civilisation
Majuro (Marshall Islands) (AFP) - Sporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro on Monday. A male nurse had to help the man previously identified as Jose Ivan down the…
Immigration detention for teen in leaf-pile deaths
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 19-year-old Oregon woman who drove an SUV into a leaf pile, accidentally killing two young girls playing in it, has been taken into federal custody and may face deportation.
District of Columbia city council to vote on decriminalizing pot
The District of Columbia's city council will vote on Tuesday on whether to decriminalize marijuana in a move that could make smoking a joint a violation comparable to a parking ticket. The bill is expected to pass the first of two votes required for legislation in the district, since eight of the…
Parents upset over ‘game' at middle school that asked questions like ‘Do your parents drink?’ and ‘Has anyone in your family been in jail?’
The game was called “Cross the Line,” an ironic title because that’s exactly what parents of students at a middle school in Marinette, Wisconsin think the educators did.
Hermione should have married Harry Potter, Rowling admits
After years of squabbling, Harry Potter's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger finally became an item -- but now their creator JK Rowling has admitted she made a mistake by marrying them off. Hermione -- whose quick wits get the teen wizards out of many a scrape in Rowling's hit novels --…
Lenovo shares plummet more than 14% in Hong Kong
Shares in Chinese technology giant Lenovo slumped more than 14 percent in Hong Kong Tuesday, after it agreed to buy struggling handset maker Motorola from Google for $2.91 billion. Wednesday's deal -- which came a week after Lenovo bought IBM's low-end server business for $2.3 billion -- has…
Mandela leaves at least $4.1 million in last will
Nelson Mandela left an estate of at least $4.1 million, according to details of his final will and testament released Monday, amid a very public family feud over his legacy. The wife of South Africa's first black president is entitled to half of his estate, with the rest shared out among various…
4,600-Year-Old Step Pyramid Uncovered in Egypt
TORONTO — Archaeologists working near the ancient settlement of Edfu, in southern Egypt, have uncovered a step pyramid that dates back about 4,600 years, predating the Great Pyramid of Giza by at least a few decades. Over time, the step pyramid's stone blocks were pillaged, and the monument was…
UK greenhouse gas emissions rose 3.2 percent in 2012: government data
Britain's greenhouse gas emissions rose 3.2 percent in 2012 from a year earlier due to a move from natural gas to coal for power generation and increased use of heating during a cold winter, final government data showed on Tuesday. Britain, the world's ninth largest emitter in 2012, saw greenhouse…
Fourth Amendment: Unreasonable Search and Seizure
Today, we look at an amendment that is seemingly in the news daily: the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Wary NKorea struggles to stay afloat in info age (8 photos)
North Korea is literally off the charts regarding Internet freedoms . There essentially aren't any. But the country is increasingly online. Though it deliberately and meticulously keeps its people isolated and in the dark about the outside world, it knows it must enter the information age to…
Godspeed the John Glenn: Navy Christens Ship for 1st American to Orbit Earth
John Glenn's first impression upon seeing the U.S. Navy ship that will sail bearing his name was that it looked "like somebody forgot to finish it." "I thought it looked like kids playing with a LEGO set and they forgot to finish the whole thing up," the retired Marine, NASA astronaut and U.S.…
Thailand: China Cancels Rice Deal Amid Graft Probe
Thailand: China cancels deal to buy more than 1 million tons of rice due to corruption probe
This High Tech Injection Heals Gunshot Wounds in 15 Seconds
An Oregon based startup might have revolutionized the way we heal gunshot wounds. Startup RevMedx, which develops products for military medics and members of the emergency services, has created a device that can heal a gunshot wound in 15 seconds, Popular Science reports. The device is called…
